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Like your ex, a supermarket roast chicken or a Sunday morning, Bratislava is cheap and easy. If you’re in the vicinity, you’d be crazy not to go spend a day wandering around Slovakia’s capital. Here’s your guide to doing it (Bratislava, I mean, geez). Get there: Train it From Vienna’s Central Station, it’s just a one-hour […]

The best travel advice you never knew you needed. You’re welcome. Can I Bring My Selfie Stick? A favourite of Kimmy K et al. (probably). Search for an attraction by name, country or type to find out whether you can pack your selfie stick to break the Internet with a selfie to rival all others. Don’t forget your […]

If I was asked to describe Bath in a sentence, it would be that the town is a veritable encyclopaedia of pub trivia. Bath is a town where every street looks like a postcard and where the roll-call of famous residents past and present is probably the most motley crew in the world, including Jane Austen, Bill Bailey, Manolo Blahnik […]

Palm trees on sandy beaches, coastal roads lined with stalls selling coconuts and papaya, hectare after hectare of banana plantation, and a very Arabian village seemingly stuck a few decades back in time… On first appearances, Salalah does appear to be undergoing a major identity crisis. Centuries ago, this beachside town hugging the southern coast of Oman […]